Biodiversity, abundance, and activity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria during primary succession on a copper mine tailings

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 439-450

  Huang, Li Nan ^a   Tang, Feng Zao ^a   Song, Yong Sheng ^a   Wan, Cai Yun ^a   Wang, Sheng Long ^a   Liu, Wei Qiu ^a   Shu, Wen Sheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clone library; Mine tailings; nifH gene; Nitrogen fixing bacteria; Primary succession; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; COPPER; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; CLONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COPPER; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; REAL TIME; SOIL CRUST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAILINGS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHINA; COPPER; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; MINING; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEOBACTERIA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; NOSTOCALES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 81155125203     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01178.x     Document Type: Article

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